About the course: In this course, we read some of the greatest poetry to survive from ancient Greece. All students will read substantial selections from the Iliad; the 324 class will have the pleasure of also reading from the Odyssey. We will also take time to explore interesting aspects of Homeric scholarship; visit with Homeric papyri in the Rubenstein; and the 324 class may also look into some contemporary reception to the poem.
About the instructor: William A. Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke, with a range of specialities that includes ancient books and readers, ancient music, literary papyrology, and early Greek historiography. He has authored or edited five books and about 40 articles and reviews. His latest volumes are The Essential Herodotus (Oxford 2016) and The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (Oxford 2017).
Follow the link to Johnson's web site by clicking here.
About the instructor: William A. Johnson is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke, with a range of specialities that includes ancient books and readers, ancient music, literary papyrology, and early Greek historiography. He has authored or edited five books and about 40 articles and reviews. His latest volumes are The Essential Herodotus (Oxford 2016) and The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (Oxford 2017).
Follow the link to Johnson's web site by clicking here.
The painting at top is a detail of hoplites running, from a black-figure vase, 6th c. BCE, currently in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.